Visitors - Softcover

'At seventy she understood how closely she was being subsumed into the natural processes, feared the dark, welcomed the light.'
Since her husband's death fifteen years ago, Dorothea May has become a recluse - if not happy in, at least accepting, her solitary condition. But when a relative of her husband declares her intention to marry in London, Dorothea finds herself cajoled into providing a room for the best man, Steve. Suddenly, she finds her home invaded by a bright, brash young wanderer, both threatening and puzzling. Yet could Steve's presence and the coming wedding change Dorothea in ways she could never anticipate?

'Seductively deceptive' Daily Mail

'Like Virginia Woolf, Brookner's aim is not to draw characters in the round, but to reveal psychological reality in the deep' The Times